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Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

65K views15 years ago1 recommendation

Systems programmingMobile developmentOperating systemsAndroid and Jetpack Compose

A demonstration of the Inferno operating system adapted to run on an Android phone, showing calls, SMS, and data networking.

This is a demonstration of Inferno running on an Android phone. Sandia National Labs has adapted the Inferno operating system to act as a more phone-oriented OS, allowing us to make calls, send and receive SMS, and use the phone data network. For more information, see bitbucket.org/floren/inferno/wiki/Home I apologize for the fuzzy screen view and the slightly muddled audio; I had to sit behind my laptop and hold the camera in front of the screen, making it difficult to see what the camera was actually capturing; it also put me at a bad mic angle.

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What people say. Recommended as an interesting demonstration of running the Plan 9 descendant Inferno on mobile hardware.

0xdeadbeefbabeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'”

Don't give up on android yet, it's just a dumb linux and despite vendor plots you can make it into dumb android like this guy did: link to this video Cyanogen mod is going in the "smart" direction, but a mod could go in the other direction too. Slides for hellaphone here link Edit: Add slides link

jffon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Inferno on Android”

Here's a short video I threw together demonstrating the phone. It's pretty spur of the moment, and the video quality is low, but you may be able to get an idea of how it works: link to this video Also check out link for screenshots.

drybjedon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Will Linux phones stay around this time?”

There is/was a Hellaphone1 project, based on Inferno, a Plan 9 successor. There are also some slides2 and a video demonstration3 available. 1: link 2: link 3: link to this video

marttton Hacker News • Mentions

On “People deciding to ditch their smartphones”

I've intentionally never owned a smartphone. I used a Nokia 3310 for 12 years, starting in high school. When it finally broke (and I was a 30-ish young dad), there were always several "old phones" abandoned by family members or close relatives, so I've been using those to their end ever since. The current one is a Nokia 2600, which I genuinely dislike (tiny buttons, overengineered menu system), but the miserable thing stubbornly works, so what can I do? IIRC, the idea of constantly reading e-mail or browsing the web from some tiny phone screen made me really uneasy even as a young adult. I surely liked computers, but that, I felt, would be too much. Would I really need anything else except S…